Justification:
This resticted range species (St. Paul Rocks, Ascension and St. Helena) is relatively common. Population and life history characteristics are unknown. This is a moderately large species. It is captured incidentally by fisheries, but it is not thought to be a major theat. This species is listed as Least Concern.

A moderately large species, to about 300 mm TL (J.H. Choat pers. comm. 2008). Ecological data are available for the holotype and 10 paratypes taken during a collecting trip to Ascension Island by R. Lubbock. The specimens were collected near rocks on calcareous algal rubble, rocks on sand and in an area of scattered rubble on relatively fine coralline debris. Capture depths ranged from 12 to 35 m. it is a protogynous hermaphrodite, with obvious sexual dichromatism (Gomon and Lubbock 1980). It is also collected by Choat and Robertson in Ascension and St. Helena. It is seen at depths of around 20 m in St Helena (J.H. Choat pers. comm.).